Some of California’s decisions about how to use its water would be relegated to the federal government under a bill passed by the House on Wednesday.
Republicans say the bill will bring more water to the parched Central Valley. California's...

Rep. Jeff Denham has been at odds with his own party’s leadership on immigration reform before, but he's trying again with this Congress, hoping a single comment from the president-elect is a sign his idea might have a chance.
The Turlock Republican...

California’s lengthy ballot includes a proposition that would instruct members of the state’s congressional delegation to do something that many of them are already trying to do: change how money is involved in politics.
But that hasn’t stopped...

As U.S. diplomatic relations with Cuba normalize, a California congressman wants to know what the federal government is doing to bring back the man who kidnapped him and a plane full of people in November 1971.
Rep. Jerry McNerney is hoping the matter...

California’s congressional delegation continued to wrangle over how to respond to the Golden State’s water crisis Thursday when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released what she called a "discussion draft" of proposed legislation.
Feinstein said in a...

Rep. Doug LaMalfa apparently has a lot to say.
The Richvale Republican stood on the House floor and addressed colleagues on 72 of 157 legislative days this year, more than any other member of California's congressional delegation.
LaMalfa, a farmer...

Debate over a plan to address California’s drought continued Friday as the Republicans in the state's delegation held a news conference blaming Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for not supporting their bid to insert the plan into a must-pass spending...

About 1,600 Syrian refugees have gone through the vetting process and reached the United States in recent years. More than 4 million have fled the ongoing fighting in Syria, with many going to other Middle Eastern countries such as Turkey and Jordan, or...

Congress averted a federal government shutdown Wednesday just hours before a midnight deadline to keep agencies open for business, and two years after a 17-day partial shutdown. The House of Representatives voted 277 to 151 on a measure to keep offices...

Clout can be defined in many ways. In California's parched Central Valley farmlands, it's the ability to secure water.
By that measure, the giant Westlands Water District has just set a whole new standard. In a legal settlement signed Wednesday with...

Nearly a dozen members of California's delegation to Congress remain undecided on the central issue they will face when returning to Washington on Tuesday — whether to support the Iran nuclear deal.
The House as early as Wednesday will consider a...

The Republican challengers who nearly upset two veteran Democratic congressmen in California during the Nov. 4 elections ran short on money for their campaigns and got little or no help from their party, reports filed this week showed.
Rep. Jim Costa...

Rep. Scott Peters (D-San Diego) appears close to defeating Republican challenger Carl DeMaio after a costly campaign marked by biting accusations.
Peters, seeking a second term, is ahead by 4,771 votes with between 6,000 and 8,000 votes remaining to be...